DevOps Lead

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and P , the world’s premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans.

TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry‑leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

TKO is seeking a Dev Ops Lead to own the deployment, release management, and security operations that keep our Salesforce and business-systems platforms reliable, secure, and fast to evolve. Reporting to the VP, Business Systems, this role establishes and continuously optimizes the frameworks for deployment, pipeline, and environment management; and owns security operations spanning observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability and scaling.

The Dev Ops Lead owns the engineering discipline, automation, and operational guardrails that make delivery safe, repeatable, and high-quality. The role serves as the connective tissue between software developers, security, and IT operations - streamlining workflows and introducing tooling and AI capabilities that accelerates deployments and strengthens security operations.

• Own the framework and ongoing optimization of deployment, pipeline (CI/CD), environment management, and release management across the Salesforce and connected business‑systems landscape.
• Own security operations — including observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability and scaling — ensuring platforms are secure, resilient, and performant.
• Own security vendor relationships, ensuring adherence to SLAs, monitoring services, and alerting
• Facilitate communication and streamline workflows between software developers, security, and IT operations teams, breaking down silos across the delivery pipeline.
• Own the tooling and AI capabilities that accelerate deployment, testing, and operational tasks, continuously evaluating and introducing automation that improves speed and quality.
• Establish branching, release, and environment‑promotion strategies that enable predictable, low‑risk deployments.
• Embed security and compliance controls directly into the pipeline (shift‑left), partnering with the platform and data architecture functions to enforce standards.
• Define, track, and improve Dev Sec Ops  and quality KPIs — such as deployment frequency, lead time, change‑failure rate, mean time to recovery, test coverage, and defect escape rate.
• Lead security incident response and post‑incident reviews, ensuring rigorous root‑cause analysis and durable remediation.
• Govern environments and sandboxes, including data seeding, refresh strategy, and access controls.
• Partner with the Director, Salesforce Platform Architecture & Delivery and the Data & Marketing Technology Architect to align release governance, architecture standards, and quality expectations.

• 6+ years in Dev Ops/Dev Sec Ops , release engineering, and site reliability, including experience leading practices, standards, and teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Hands‑on expertise building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment/release management.
• Experience owning security operations: observability, monitoring and alerting, incident response, and reliability and scaling practices.
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